I May be Immortal, But I still Feel.
Chapter One
Author's Note: Okay, so the first and second Hellboy fanfics I had posted I have decided to delete them due to it not feeling right if that makes sense. This one will take place during and after Hellboy II: The Golden Army since my character wasn't around during the first one due to issues from the past. Pairings are: OC and Prince Nuada, Hellboy and Liz (as always), and Abe and Princess Nuala because come on? They're perfect for each other. Anyways... Enjoy.
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How long has it been since living here again? Seems longer than what I've been told from Agent Sanders, who by the way was my "baby sitter".
I smirked slightly at the memory. He looked like he needed this job since he couldn't find anything else to do around here, and me being the sweet thing that I am, I've been on my best behavior. Sighing softly, I continue browsing through the many books on a random shelf inside the library that was in Section 51 of this place, trying to keep my mind occupied while Abe was listening to some classical music.
Suddenly the double golden oak doors opened to reveal Director Manning, who was holding a sealed folder as he walked up to the glass tank and rapped his knuckles on the glass, getting Abe's attention.
"Fish-stick! We have to talk." He told him as he slammed the folder that read TOP SECRET on the front. Then he turned to face me and added, "You too, Bat Girl."
That got a glare out of me. I hated when people call me that! So yeah, I had wings and that gave people here the right to call me that? Hell no. Also, they were not bat wings, they were Dracon wings.
Moments later Abe walked down the spiral staircase to stand next to Manning, who handed it to my friend as he opened the file to pull out the photos of my "brother". Becoming curious, I stepped next to them to see the different photos.
"Undercover. Can't heget the meaning of the word?" Manning asked with an annoyed voice as Abe looked through each photo. "Look, we are still Government funded. We are still a secret, although a dirty secret if you ask me. Officially, we do not exist." He rambled on as he walked around us while was "explaining" to us about what Red had done to get Manning to come to us of all people.
Like we need to hear your constant complaining, Manning!
"You see that's the problem when we get these." He added as he tapped one of the photos that Abe had pulled out. "Subway." Manning gestured to one. "Highway." he pointed to the second one. "Ah, park!" He exclaimed as he pulled the final one out of Abe's hold. "And he posed for this one and gave an autograph." Manning let out a sigh as he got closer. "I suppress each photo, cellphone videos and they cost me a fortune! A-a-and they show up on YouTube. God, I hate YouTube." He added with an annoyed look with closed eyes.
"Oh, well he just wants the world outside to know what we do. What he does." Abe explained while Manning agreed sarcastically. How I know? I could see it on his face.
"What about you, Jessica? Why do you think your dear ol' brother does to me when he does this sort of thing?" Manning looked over to me. I just shrugged and replied,
"He does it just to piss you off, obviously." I told him with a small smirk. Manning just rolled his eyes at that as he pulled out a roll of paper.
"He loathes me."
"Well, I don't think so." Abe assured him while looking back at the balding man.
"No?" He then unrolled the large paper to reveal his face on it, littered with bullet holes. I couldn't help but snort at that. "Target practice."
"Oh dear." Abe was slightly shocked at what Red had done. I wasn't.
"And he posts them around." He deadpanned as he crumbled it into a ball and tossed it aside. "Do you know how that makes me feel?"
"Sad?" I suggested. His response was a glare.
We walked out of the library as we avoided several agents who were trying to contain a weird looking creature as it roared and struggled to break free.
"What's going on?" Manning asked as the three of us avoided getting hit.
"Oh, it's Friday." Abe told him as we continued down the corridor.
"I tell you Fish Stick, he hates me. He's out to destroy me. M-my street cred is low."
"Street cred?" Questioned Abe as we both gave him a look. Street cred, Manning? Like you even had any in the first place.
'Don't let him hear you say that out loud.' Abe's voice came in my mind.
'It's true and you know it.'
"My mojo." Manning added. "Washington, there wondering if I got this stuff. Do you think I have an easy job?" No. No you do not have an easy job. "Do you think I enjoy being a pain, i-i-in the neck?" He stuttered as we continued walking on. "I am medicated." He told us as he popped a piece of some kind a candy in his mouth.
"Medicated?" I gave him a 'yeah right' look. He ignored me.
"This is not candy, this is an antacid. Yes, it's the over the counter medicine but it's still medicine." Manning explained as we stopped in front of a room with some-kind-of-squid and crab love child that got rejected badly. "You see, I'm worried, because um, you know I am, we are, after all humble public servants." Manning finished as he looked at the little goblin-like thing as the agent carrying it walked by as Manning turned to keep looking at it then looked back at me and Abe.
"It's not about you, he's... acting out." Abe began as Manning gave him a 'continue on' gesture. "He's tense with Liz."
My guess, Red starts it.
'You don't know that for sure, Jess.'
'Try watching him grow up.' I countered.
"Tense? Uh, how tense? Tense how?" Manning asked as he looked a bit worried.
"Oh, you know? The usual." He explained while gesturing with a hand.
"Mhmm." Manning listened on. I was interested on what the excuse was for Red and Liz's fights.
"New couple, making adjustments." the doors slid opened as we walked into a smaller hallway that lead to Red and Liz's room. "They argue."
"They argue, huh?"
"Sometimes."
"How bad?"
"Like everybody else." Abe continued as we came closer to the vault-like door. "They have good days, and bad days."
Abe was cut off when we all heard Liz yelling behind the door as it began to bulge forward as bolts began to fly off from the hinges. The next thing we knew, the thick steel door shot off like a bullet as we quickly jumped to get out of the way.
"Jesus!" I exclaimed as the door crashed hard against to where we had entered from and landed on the marble floor with a loud crash. We all looked to see Red emerge from the debris with a grunt as he slowly stood up to brush the stuff off him. He then looked over to where we were standing a gave us a wave.
"Hey Abe, hey Jess."
"Red! Come back here!" Liz's distant shouting told us that she was pissed off at the red demon. As usual.
"Manning." Red greeted with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"Red, what the fuck did you do?" I groaned in as if in pain at his stupidity. Yeah, I loved my annoying brother, but sometimes, he always got himself in so deep that I wouldn't even help him get out of. Including this one.
"I didn't do anything!"
"Then what was that?!" I half shouted while gesturing to the giant mess.
"Pick up your clothes!" Liz shouted as she was still pissed. Whatever Red had done, I knew that it was his messy-ness from his room and himself.
"Yeah yeah." He muttered as he looked back to his girlfriend. "Watch it, guys. She's on fire." He told us as he walked back towards his room.
"Then again, there are the really bad days." Abe told Manning as we followed Red into his room.
To say that his room was a mess was an understatement. Cat food scattered everywhere, the smell was disgusting to say the least, and everything was just lying around everywhere. How Liz lives with all of this is beyond me.
"I'm not afraid of you, Y'know."
"Well, you should be! Look at this mess? Look around!"
"I have one rule. Don't, don't touch my stuff.
"Oh, I get it? That's your rule?"
"One and only. I'm easy?"
"How's that even possible? Everything is your stuff! Same CD, LP."
"Al Green. You can't listen to Al Green on CD!" He argued back. "But it's good to keep!"
"And an Eight track?! An Eight track, Red?!"
"Well yeah, one of these days the world's gonna realize that it was a mistake. Eight track was the way to go." He told her as he walked over to their bed and lifted the blanket up. "C'mon kids, you can come out now." He told his cats as they came out of their hiding spot and into the main area of the room.
"It's over now. That's right, it's all over."
"And what about me, Red? I need some space!" Liz said as she turned back to look at him, slowly calming her flames with the Meditation she had learned a while back. "At least enough to find my toothbrush."
"Toothbrush? Ah, wait a minute." Red got up from the edge of the bed to look around for his girlfriends' toothbrush, then he found it and gestured, "It's right there!"
Gross.
It was in a can of opened cat food, you know, the gross kind? Liz looked a bit grossed out as she plucked it from the wet cat food and gave Red a look. "Red! I can't live like this."
He was about to reply when suddenly the alarms went off, letting everyone know that something happened from the outside.
"Awe, damn. Gotta go. We all gotta go, it's an emergency, right? Let's go!" He headed out and patted Liz slightly on the back as he passed her, grabbing his signature Leather Duster as we all got out of their room and headed down.
We made our way down the flight of steps towards the giant garage when Manning was trying to catch up to us, calling out Red's name. "Red! Hold on a sec!"
"Geeze, it's Manning. Watch yourself Liz." He told her as an agent walked past with some statue.
"Uh, Red! Red!" Manning finally caught up to the couple as Abe and I followed while putting on our gear. "Wait a sec."
"Manning."
"Hi. Listen, we're going to downtown Manhattan."
"Yeah, it'll be fun."
"Yeah, downtown. Very dangerous."
Yeah right. I mused as I zipped up my bullet proof vest over my dark blue V-neck long sleeve shirt, hooking my belt over my black skinny jeans.
"Dangerous for you, and uh, for me." Manning continued to bother him as we made our way inside. I decided to help a few guys with some of the gear to track down the paranormal, but I continued listening in their conversation.
"Nah!" Red brushed his words off, thinking that this mission would be easy. Not smart to be cocky.
"Now I know you dream of the outside world but trust me it's not that great. It's savage as a matter of fact. Bad, but these? on the other hand, are good." Manning stated as he pulled out a fresh pack of cigars.
I just rolled my hazel eyes at this. Manning was now bribing my younger brother? With cigars? Oh, my god.
"Mmm." Red was now interested? Shit.
"Cuban."
"Good..."
"Being seen?"
"Bad." Red even wagged a finger at that. I caught Liz's attention with my eyes and gestured my head to where the two men were talking. She had a 'What the hell' look on her face. I did too.
"I confiscated a box of these, and I'll-I'll get you some more if uh, you'll do me a big favor tonight out there?" He offered, slightly waving them in front of Red's personal space. "You have to be very, very... Uhm.."
"Discreet?" Abe offered as he walked up to help Manning find the right word to say.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome!" With that, he walked off.
"Discreet." Manning finally finished as he looked back at Hellboy.
"Invisible. In, and out."
Liz and I then walked over as she patted Red's shoulder and asked, "Really?" She gave a look too, clearly showing him that she wasn't amused.
"Giving in to bribing? Really?" I added as I made my way through the two as he turned fully to look at our retreating forms.
"Hey! I can be discreet if I wanna be!" He jabbed back, getting worked up from our words. Poor baby... "I followed you and Myers, didn't I?!"
"And then you had him transferred to Antarctica! That's really... 'discreet'!" Liz shouted back while walking right back around to head into our ride.
I had met Myers a couple of times while I came back in 2005. He was a nice guy, I'll admit. Kinda wished I'd gotten to know him better before he left. Shaking out of my thoughts, we both got inside and got ready to head out.
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After getting out of the truck from the back out the huge building, we made our way inside to walk into to what I had guessed was a war-zone. The floor was covered in some very disgusting gunk that was sticking onto the bottom of my black combat boots.
But the smell was much, much worse.
"Yuck!" I made a face at the sight and smell.
"Jeez, it stinks in here! This is worse than my room." Red spoke as he turned to where we were standing at to grab his Good Samaritan to load up.
"Much worse." I agreed, giving him a side glance. He rolled his eyes at my comment.
Abe was holding some camera thing as he turned to where Liz and I were at while loading our Glocks. "Say 'cheese'!" We both posed while we readied them up, giving identical smirks as the camera flashed.
"Let's go." She commanded as we spread out into different groups. I went with Red and Marble while Liz and Abe went with Steel and a few others.
We both walked inside another room where the damage looked worse. Furniture was destroyed as it littered around everywhere, the walls looked like they were gonna cave on themselves as we all had our weapons ready, ready to shoot anything that popped up.
"Whatever they called us for is over." Liz's voice filled our ears through our ear pieces. "With over seventy guests reported, we have no survivors? No bodies?" She asked us as we continued to search around. They had flashlights to see better in the dark floor, while Red and I didn't need them due to our vision being better than a normal human can see with.
"Same story here, Babe." Red answered, looking to where he heard her voice coming from.
"Don't call me 'Babe'." She deadpanned.
"Abe! I said 'Abe'! Wrong channel." He told her while turning off their channel. Nice excuse, Red. Real nice. "Hey Jess? I think Liz is still mad at me."
"I wonder why?" I deadpanned at him while tucking my raven black hair behind my left ear, revealing a full view of the pointed tip. Both ears were like that.
"Still the same channel." Liz deadpanned again.
"Oh." Apparently he didn't turn it off. Oops. I let out a soft snort of amusement. "Very funny, sis." Red's voice hinted that he wasn't as amused as I was. I snorted a bit louder.
"Uh, can I ask you a question?" Red asked after a few minutes of silence.
"No." She replied. I decided that this wasn't the best time to listen in, so I turned off my channel to Liz and Red and spoke to Abe to kill the silence around me.
"Whatever Red had done, I doubt Liz is gonna forgive him."
"Now, I wouldn't think of that, Jess. I'm sure that the two of them will work things out." He reassured me as he could sense my worry.
"But still, they haven't argued like this since Red had accidentally eaten that b-day cake that I made for Liz while you-know-what was going on that month..."
"Hmm, true. But I don't want you to worry that much, alright? Let them work this out."
"Alright. I'll finish this later." I told him while turning our channel off, figuring Abe will have something to say about otherwise.
I wanted to keep my mind off on what Abe and I talked about, so I walked over to where Red and Marble were at. I silently walked over to the broken wall because something inside had caught my attention. I had a gut feeling that we were dealing with something small and there were many of them.
"Red? Jessica? We have company..." The sound of Abe's voice had startled me a bit as moved back to stand next to Red with our guns held out and ready.
"C'mon Blue, gimme something to work on, here." Red told him as we caught sight of something with wings and were quickly gone before we could get a better look on them.
"Burrowing creatures." Answered Abe as we both were looking around from hearing more of them.
"How many of them?" Questioned Red as he was ready to shoot at them.
"Many. There are no corpses, because there are not leftovers." He inquired as we had just now noticed. "Have you noticed the floor?"
"Awe crap!" We both said in unison, disgusted by on what we were standing in.
"Precisely. All these things do is eat and eat, and then poop, and then eat and eat again."
"Remind you of anyone?" Asked Liz as we heard her distant voice come from Abe's channel.
"Damn it, Abe! What are these things?!" Red demanded as those things were getting louder and louder.
"Carcharodon Calaria." He read out the answer from one of those books he had brought with him for stuff like this.
"English! English!"
"Toothfaeries."
"Ha!"
"No no. Third Century, black forests. Feed mostly on calcium. Bones, skin, organs, but they do go for the teeth first. Heh, hence the name 'Toothfaeries'!"
"Betcha they don't leave money, either." I sarcastically remarked.
We then heard something from behind us as we saw Marble shine his light at one of them. Well what do you know? They're cute and deadly.
"What do ya got, Marble?" Red had asked while looking for more signs of them.
"I think I may have found one." He answered as Red looked over to see the tiny thing. "He's kinda cute." He admitted.
"Don't go near it." I told Marble as I aimed at the thing, knowing that this was not as cute as he thought.
The thing stopped eating some tooth that it had dug up from its own shit and flew up onto the fallen chair, looking at Marble with its black beady eyes. That's when it attacked.
Marble was screaming as the thing was inside his shirt and began gnawing on him. "It's biting me!" He kept on panicking as he tried pulling at it to get it off him. Red and I quickly came to the man's aid as Red had ripped that thing off Marble with his stone hand and squeezed it so hard that the things head blew off.
That's when all hell broke loose...
All of us were shooting at as many we could get, not stopping at getting at those little bastards. "Ah! Get off me you little shit!" I shouted as I ignited my left arm with flames. Liz wasn't the only one in our group to have powers.
"Jess!" Red's voice caught my attention as he shot several of them who were quickly swarming around us. "Fry those little suckers!"
"With pleasure!"
My body was surrounded in thousands of volts of electricity, burning any who were getting close. Having both Pyro and Electro-kinesis made me very dangerous, made me more dangerous than Liz whenever she had gotten angry at anyone who pissed her off. But it felt so good to let loose.
Red kept on firing at them as the swarm of Toothfaeries attacked Marble all at once, leaving nothing behind.
"Marble!"
But it was too late to save him. I screamed in rage as my power intensified as Red kept shooting and ripping off any that had gotten on him.
"Red, Jess! We need you here!" Liz's voice told us that she and the others were having trouble on their end. Zapping and burning at them, I quickly made my way towards the others to help by killing them with our weapons, while Red took care of the rest of them.
Liz had summoned up her flames as they began to grow rapidly. "You should be running..." She told the others as Steel had said that there was a Safe from upstairs. Before they could get to it, the wall next to us was destroyed by a giant statue that Red must've used to kill some of them.
Liz quickly grabbed my arm as we ran out of the way before the thing could crush us.
"Up to the Safe, Now!"
"Abe! Up the stairs!" Liz shouted at the two. Red quickly stormed up to us as he continued shooting at little bastards.
"C'mon girls, burn them all!"
"Fire is mine, fire is in me." Liz chanted as gasped out in pain as I was beginning to lose my control, but I couldn't stop! I refuse to fuckin' stop!
"Red! Stay away from the window!" Liz told him as her flames continued to grow.
"Ahhh!" I screamed as I fell to my knees as Liz had done the same.
"World, here I come." Was all I heard as we both let loose from our elements, screaming in pain as everything around us was destroyed from the explosion of flames and electricity.
Slowly, we soon got into our calm and control as they both soon dispersed. Helping each other up, we noticed a certain red demon was missing.
"Oh, hell no." That was the first words out of my mouth as we saw the Hellboy sized hole from the blast.
"Damn it, Red!" We growled at his stupidity. Well, looks like we're out…
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Author's Note: Finally finished this chapter! More will come whenever I get the chance, since I have college and stuff. Don't forget to leave a review! -Jessica the Insane
